Not Here to Be Liked

by Michelle Quach

Because everyone loves a girlboss until she tries to tell you what to do.

@auteurwinona: Can we stop calling every girl who speaks her mind “crazy”?

“Some of you may think this makes me a ‘feminazi.’ But really, the only thing it makes me is a feminist.”

“SO WHERE CAN I GET ONE OF THOSE?” LEN POINTS at the I AM A FEMINIST button that I’m still wearing pinned to my chest every day.

Wait, don’t get off the phone. I still want to talk to you.

So I just wanted to set the record straight. Whatever Eliza gets called, I should be, too. It’s not fair that only she has to deal with that crap.”

“Who’s DiMartile?” he murmurs into my hair. “You like him or something?”